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A world of difference : encountering and contesting development
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A world of difference : encountering and contesting development

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Measuring, describing, and mapping difference and development
Knowing the third world: colonial encounters
Knowing the third world: the development decades
The third world and neoliberal globalization
Geographies of population: discourse and politics
Contested environments: the entanglements of environment, development, and globalization
Disease and health
Uncertain rains: the atmospheric energy cycle and the hydrologic cycle
Other challenges to rural livelihood: soils, vegetation, and pests
Nature as latitudinal trickster: the carbon cycle and plant growth
The management of tropical and subtropical ecosystems: the Pokot of West Central Kenya-an indigenous knowledge system
The historical geography of colonialism and the slave trade
Colonialism as spatial and labor control system
The end of colonialism and the promise of free trade
Trading primary commodities
Peripheral industrialization: paths and strategies
The earth's crust as resource
Urbanization, migration, and spatial polarization
Transnational production
Foreign branch plants and economic growth
Money and global finance markets / with Bongman Seo
Borrowing money: aid, debt, and dependence / with Bongman Seo
Toward different worlds.

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A world of difference : encountering and contesting development. ISBN 9781606232620. Published by Guilford Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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